11 Facts About Jon Radoff

Jon Radoff is an American entrepreneur, author and game designer.

Jon Radoff's work has focused on online communities, Internet media and computer games.

Jon Radoff is CEO and co-founder of Beamable, a Live Game services platform that enables the creation of online games based on Unity.

On September 21,2006, Jon Radoff founded GamerDNA, a social media company that developed social gaming communities and a videogame advertising network.

In March 2010, Jon Radoff started a new social game company called Disruptor Beam that built games for Facebook.

Jon Radoff ultimately sold its games to other publishers, underwent a reorganization, and relaunched as Beamable.

Jon Radoff wrote Game On: Energize your Business with Social Games, which was published by Wiley in 2011.

Jon Radoff is generally critical of the gamification trend, and explains to businesses that they must incorporate story and immersion into their businesses if they really want to take advantage of the unique engagement offered by games.

Jon Radoff lived in Northborough, Massachusetts and was a 1991 graduate of Algonquin Regional High School.

Much of the money Jon Radoff earned from Space Empire Elite and his other Atari ST game, Final Frontier, later became seed capital which he used to start the company NovaLink.

Also while in high school, Jon Radoff purchased the rights to port the Atari ST BBS software StarLink, which supported FidoNet, to the Amiga; Jon Radoff named the ported software Paragon BBS.